KiB - GiB Ranks Among The Dumbest Ideas Ever - The Unnecessary "i"

KiB and GiB solve a non-problem.

Everywhere in the digital domain and computers KB , MB, GB etc mean the binary, powers of 2 domain, EXCEPT in drive capacities. ie hard drives, SSD, Flash Drives etc. Some twit marketing type back in the 1950s/1960s decided that the capacities would "look" larger if they used MB where M is in the power of 10 domain (or they just couldn't wrap their head around binary numbers - whatever). It was a stupid idea then and an even more stupid idea now.

And, by the way, it is only applies in the advertising and cardboard box world. As soon as you look at the drive size on a computing device, it shows it in the powers of 2 domain.

But no, do we fix the problem by changing how drive capacities are shown in literature and on the cardboard box? Some really well meaning, ignorant person/group decides we should re-label everything is the entire computer world as xiB where "i" means it is in the power of 2 domain.

Yes there is an "i" in binary, but that isn't the point!
All I have to say about this "i" movement is Kibbles 'n Bits...